The Great Outdoors

co-starring Chevy Chase; John Hughes’s The Great Outdoors (1988); and Caddyshack II (1988). In 1989 Aykroyd took on a dramatic role in Driving Miss Daisy, for which he received an Academy Award nomination for best supporting actor.

…Aykroyd’s character in the comedy The Great Outdoors (1988), which also starred John Candy. She won notice for her portrayal of the manipulative marquise de Merteuil opposite Colin Firth in Miloš Forman’s Valmont (1989). Bening’s breakthrough performance was as a similarly complex con artist in Stephen Frears’s The Grifters (1990),…